Hidden inside polyps sit polyps and sloppy, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
polyps and sloppy tie for the highest Scrabble score from polyps at 13 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in polyps: one comes from rearranging its letters, and polyps itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sloppy. For points, the strongest plays are polyps and sloppy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polyps. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are loppy, polyp, popsy, and soppy, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in polyps produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pops. For points, the strongest plays are ploy, poly, and posy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling polyps turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pop, soy, and spy. For points, the strongest plays are ply and spy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polyps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oy, so, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in polyps and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
polyps is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for polyps. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
polyps is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing polyps unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are polyps and sloppy, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from polyps earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in polyps produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.